The Sobs of Autumn's Violins: A Novel of War and Love
Coral Springs, FL: Llumina Press, 2005. Trade paperback. More
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Doubloons: The Story of Buried Treasure
New York: Pennant Books, 1954. First Pennant Books Edition. Paperback. Pennant Books no. P40 Collection of 9 stories. "Captain Kidd buried golden, jeweled loot, and so did Henry Morgan, Lafitte added his share in the Louisiana swamps. Then there are the drowned galleons, holding the salty, coral-grown treasures..... More
A Death in the Small Hours
New York: Minotaur Books, 2012. Paperback. More
The Marrow of Tradition
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. Werner Sollors (ed.). First Edition. Paperback. The Norton Critical Edition of this hugely influential novel gives readers the fullest possible sense of its historical background and critical assessment. Inspired by the 1898 Wilmington Riot and the eyewitness accounts of Charles W. Chesnutt’s..... More
Marco Polo
London: Futura/Jade, 1982. Paperback. Based on the screenplay. More
The Good Terrorist
London: Jonathan Cape, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by author. The Good Terrorist follows Alice Mellings, a woman who transforms her home into a headquarters for a group of radicals who plan to join the IRA. As Alice struggles to bridge her ideology and her bourgeois upbringing, her..... More
Arch of Triumph
New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1998. Paperback. Translated from the German by Walter Sorell and Denver Lindley. More
The Runaway Soul
London: Jonathan Cape, 1991. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Harold Brodkey’s acclaimed novel is a mesmerizing work of literary genius, exploring the momentous events in the life of a family in twentieth-century St. Louis, and a writer still haunted by a childhood tragedy. First published in 1991, The Runaway Soul..... More
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2019. Frances Smith Foster, Richard Yarborough (eds.). Second Edition. Paperback. “Accompanied by historical photographs, public statements, and correspondence, and by a well-selected sampling of modern criticism, this Norton Critical Edition will stimulate many classroom discussions in years to come.” —Werner Sollors, Harvard University... More
Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2017. Robert S. Levine, Cindy Weinstein (eds.). First Edition. Paperback. When Pierre was published one year after Moby-Dick, expectations were high. Readers expected—and Melville delivered—adventure, humor, and brilliance. Magnificent and strange, Pierre is a richly allusive novel mirroring both antebellum America and Melville’s own..... More
Anthony Adverse in America
New York: Dell Publishing, 1949. Umberto Romano (cover). Paperback. Dell Mapback no. 285 Adaptation of the original novel Anthony Adverse published by Rinehart & Company. More
The Mirror and the Light
London: 4th Estate, 2020. Julian Humphries (jacket design). First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with her peerless, Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of..... More
April Morning
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1963. William Plummer (jacket painting). First Edition, Eighth Printing. Hardcover. More
The Ballad of Typhoid Mary
New York: E.P. Dutton, Inc, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. More
Centennial
New York: Random House, 1974. First Edition. Ninth Printing. Hardcover. More
The Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy, Volume I: American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand
New York: Everyman's Library, 2019. First Everyman's Library Edition. Hardcover. “America was never innocent.” Thus begins the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy. It’s James Ellroy’s pop history of the 1960s, his window-peeper’s view of government misconduct, his dirty trickster’s take on the great events of an incendiary era. It’s a tour..... More
The Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy, Volume II: Blood's a Rover
New York: Everyman's Library, 2019. First Everyman's Library Edition. Hardcover. Blood’s A Rover takes us into the seventies. MLK and RFK are dead. The Democratic National Convention in Chicago has spawned chaos. There’s a punk-kid private eye in L.A. He’s clashing with a mob goon and an enforcer for J...... More
The Man From Greek and Roman
New York: Random House, 1974. Paul Bacon (jacket design). Book Club Edition. Hardcover. More
The 42nd Parallel: First in the Trilogy U.S.A.
New York: Signet Classics, 1969. Reginald Marsh (illustrations). Reprint. Mass-market Paperback. With an introduction by Alfred Kazin. With his U.S.A. trilogy, comprising THE 42nd PARALLEL, 1919, and THE BIG MONEY, John Dos Passos is said by many to have written the great American novel. While Fitzgerald and Hemingway were..... More
Guests of the New Gold Hill
Auckland: Hodder and Stoughton, 1985. John Booth (cover design). First Edition (presumed). Softcover. A fictional autobiographical account about Chinese immigrants in New Zealand during the late 1800's through the mid 1900's. More
Finding Langston: A Novel
New York: Holiday House, 2019. James E. Ransome (cover art). First Edition. First Printing. Paperback. A Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction When eleven-year-old Langston's father moves them from their home in Alabama to Chicago's Bronzeville district, it feels like..... More
Castle Rackrent
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2015. Ryan Twomey (ed.). First Edition. Paperback. The only edition of this 1800 novel—widely regarded as the first historical novel—to include supporting materials on both the importance of Maria Edgeworth as a writer and the influence of contemporary history on this novel. Castle..... More
The Adventurer
New York: Pocket Books, 1965. Fourth Printing. Paperback. Very rare. No. 75070 Translated by Naomi Walford. More
The Green-Eyed Lama (Ногоон нуден лам)
Paris: Editions Grasset, 2008. Dorj Tsedevdamba (cover painting). First English Edition. Trade Paperback. "The Green-Eyed Lama" (2008) is an award-winning and best-selling novel written by Oyungerel Tsedevdamba and Jeff Falt. Originally published in Mongolian, the book chronicles the romance between Sendmaa, a young belle in the countryside, and Baasan, a...... More
Field Grey: A Bernie Gunther Thriller
London: Quercus, 2010. First Trade Paperback Edition. Softcover. More
